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Friday, June 11, 2010

Lake Bled - Bee Museum, Vintgar Gorge, Lake Walk

After checking in, we rushed off to the Bee Museum in Radovijca. It's a quaint museum that houses a working bee-hive, and various tools used in the process, and an informative movie about bees. Apparently bee-keeping was big out here. It was also an impressively cute little town.

After the museum, we caught a bus that took us around fifteen minutes from the entrance to Vintgar Gorge. Vintgar Gorge is a mile-long gorge near Lake Bled. It's a great little gorge that reminded us of Watkin's Glen. Unlike most waterfall or gorge hikes that I'm used to, we hiked downstream.

From the far end of the gorge, we hiked back to Bled by way of the quaint little town of Zasip, which afforded us nice views of the surrounding countryside. It was also a really cute town in a way the photos seem to have mostly failed to capture. The first part of the way was along a trail through the woods, which actually showed up as a road on our map! Way to feel transported back in time!

Our hostel had a kitchen, so dinner was pasta rustica – in olive oil sauté one onion, one large zucchini (eggplant substitution acceptable), a clove of garlic. Boil penne. Combine and add sufficient quantities of cheese and salt. Yum!

After dinner, we hiked around Lake Bled. The lake was beautiful and clear. There's a cute little church on the island in the lake. We made the walk in the twilight and enjoyed the scenery, played with the digital camera (flash settings), and watched the swan and duck families that lived on the lake. There is also a cute castle on the rocks above the lake. How lovely.